How to write a CV

A CV is your opportunity to create a great first impression. Follow our tips below to ensure your CV stands out from the rest.

A CV is your opportunity to create a great first impression, it allows you to personally advertise your skills and attributes to a prospective employer. Provide up to date contact details, email and mobile phone and evening number, and ensure you have a professional email address and voicemail message recording. When listing your previous work experience, always list your most recent role first. It is the most relevant and therefore should be the most detailed. Highlight key achievements and link your job function to relevant successes you’ve had within the role.

Keep your information relevant to the job you are applying for. Explain away employment gaps – raising a family/ looking after parents, travelling etc. It is not necessary to justify your reasons for leaving each role, these can be discussed at interview.

Education – give only brief details of your education up to age 18, the number of GSCEs is sufficient perhaps saying including English and Maths (if it is true.) Give fuller details of higher education -diplomas, certificates and degree. Include the university attended and the class of degree. Always detail your professional qualifications when achieved and from where.

Make sure that there are no spelling, grammatical or formatting errors – get as many people as you can find to proof-read your CV. Layout and design should be legible, easy to follow, and logical.

Training courses should be detailed if they have given you a skill which is relevant to the role, or if they are still in date, or would only need a refresher course to gain full certification. All residential/substantial courses should be listed.

Personal interests/activities are only useful if they add to your skill set, e.g. School governor or voluntary work.

It is standard regarding references to write ‘available upon request’.

Don’t forget to include a covering letter. Personalise and tailor this to respond to the criteria within the ad.

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Testimonials

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“This is the first year that we have worked with Daisy Recruitment, but it certainly won’t be the last. From our initial meeting they understood our specific staffing requirements straight away and provided us with a variety of high calibre and very suitable candidates for interview. The office staff are friendly, professional and extremely accommodating to our business needs. Really impressed!
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Rik Anderson, RHS

Thank you

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Kelly, Temporary

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“At a time when I needed immediate short term work that suited my skills and experience, Daisy Recruitment were able to offer a solution that suited me perfectly. Every one of their staff are helpful and polite, understanding my needs without question or quibble. Truly professional and friendly service is hard to come by but Daisy Recruitment offer it in abundance. I would definitely recommend them.
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Gillian Parker

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Marie

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“Penny has advised me for over 12 years on my HR issues. The handbook and standard letters are robust and easy to understand. It is a potential headache taken away, knowing help is at the end of a phone.”
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Shelley

A great asset to the Daisy family

“Lauren and her team are a great asset to the Daisy family. They have helped my employment hunt in a swift and professional manner as well as ensuring I had temporary work to tide me over in the interim. I went to Daisy after finding myself out of work in the lead up to Christmas. In this particularly quite period for full time hires. Lauren found some temporary work to keep me going whilst working tirelessly to find permanent positions to put me forward for. I found new full time employment through them less than 2 weeks after Christmas thanks Lauren and her teams hard work could have been so much longer. I would not hesitate to contact them again should I need assistance in either hiring for or finding a new role. I have already recommend them to friends and will continue to do so in the future..
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Graham Dodds

Excellent training

“Excellent training from Daisy kept the team interested all day. This has been invaluable with the tricky people management issues a 24/7 operation has to deal with.
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Paul

Wealth of experience and knowledge

“Penny Woodhead has been offering HR and recruitment solutions to my Company since 2001. After many years working on client’s sites Penny has a wealth of experience and knowledge, which she couples with a pragmatic solutions driven approach to issues.
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Beth

Always a pleasure

“It is always a pleasure working with the staff at Daisy recruitment. They are always willing to help, very attentive to our needs, friendly and come up with the goods! Thank you
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Kari – Ann Munro, Web Marketing Group

A big thank you for helping me through the process

“Working with Lauren was a pleasure. She is an expert at understanding and matching people with opportunities.
Always informative, professional, encouraging and attentive, I wouldn’t hesitate in recommending her.
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Katy

A winning combination.

“Daisy Recruitment have the best jobs and great staff. A winning combination.
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Michelle

Got my career moving

“Can I thank everyone for the wonderful step-up that Daisy has given me, I appreciate this enormously. The week you gave me ‘best temp’ was a bit of a landmark for me! You have really helped me get my career moving and I would recommend you to everyone!
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Chrissi Taylor

A big thank you

“Just wanted to say a big thank you to Bryony and Lauren at Daisy Recruitment for helping me to find a new role at a very difficult time of year. Lauren and Bryony worked tirelessly to find several new temp roles for me, often fitting them together so I had work every day. Communication was really prompt and efficient, too. I would highly recommend Daisy Recruitment to anyone looking for work. My sincere thanks to you both, I really appreciate your help.
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Helena Johnson

Super Helpful!

“You have been super helpful. Love working for Daisy. I can only say great things about you!
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Fiona Brown

Practical well executed actions

“Penny prides herself on providing her clients with answers, practical well executed actions, and a timely approach to distracting people issues.
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